Environmental Exposure and Nonadherence with Medicines Directly Correlate with Exacerbations and Hospitalization for Asthma: A Population-Based Survey from UAE

Table 2

Evaluation of asthma burden in the past year in UAE by comparison to AIRGNE results.

	UAE	AIRGNE total
Asthma burden in the past year	52.8	51.7
School absence in children, %	16	29.7
Mean (SD)	5.3 (4.5)	7.9 (9.6)
Work absence in adults, %	17.1	29.7
Mean (SD)	3.8 (2.7)	7.3 (8.1)
Use of health services in the past year
Hospitalization, %	4	22.5
Emergency room visit, %	28	51.5
Current use of medication (past 4 weeks)
Use of ICS, %	5.5	14.6
Use of quick relief treatment, %	47.5	55.5
Ratio ICS/SABA	0.12	0.26

ICS: inhaled corticosteroids; SD: standard deviation; SABA: short-acting beta2 agonists.
*(Reprinted with permission from AIR UAE survey [12]).